Hallway colour crisis

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Well this was the colour I wanted. Tailor Tack. For our tiny little entrance, stairway and upstairs little landing. Can't even call it a hallway really because we have no hallway. I wanted to make it look lovely. But we couldn't justify the cost of F&B.
So based on me wanting a pale white pink, DH bought Blossom White Dulux and we've just spent the week prepping and decorating, it has taken 5 days, using precious annual leave time to do it whilst DC are at school and out of the way.
It's nothing like it looked online or in the colour chart pamphlet, or in the tester patch.
Online and in the Dulux colour chart it looked a very pale chilled out pink.
In my hall it is.....basically bright lilac.
It's not the colour I wanted at all😰
DH has hit the roof and said "You do this every time! We decorate a room after weeks on end of looking at different shades of different colours, then when it's done you always say you don't like it!!!". Which I can't deny. But the colours never look the same on the walls as they do on the charts, or even the tester pot patches!
Oh, forgot to say, we started off painting it what looked like a lovely sedate green on the colour chart but it looked like grey sludge on my walls so we abandoned it 1/4 way through and that caused a row in itself. And a waste of money.
I wanted a nice, very pale, calm, muted white pink.
What I've got is bright lilac, maybe you could call it bright but pale lavender.
It literally looks NOTHING like the Dulux images of the colour on their website.
It looks nothing like other images of it online.
It's done now and I will be able to live with it though I am upset because I wanted to love it. I wanted to walk in and love the colour that greeted me. Instead I think "urgh, don't like it".
DH likes it!
DD 10 is skipping around saying it's the best colour ever!!!
But DS 14 absolutely HATES it. He literally hates it. He's saying "I love our house, why have you painted the hallway bright purpley-pink?!?! It's horrible!".
This morning DH said to DS "Is the colour growing on you?" And DS said "I can't even talk about it" whilst looking mortified.
I feel really bad for him.
Should I lump it, having both spent a week of AL working on it? And just tell DS he'll have to live with it?
Or change it and risk a massive fall out with DH? He won't take any more AL to do it all over again so it'd be me on my own. And he'll argue about the time and cost involved.
And if I buy another 7.5 litres of a different colour paint, I may as well have just paid more for F&B and got Tailor Tack in the first place😪
We have an absolutely tiny little house with a tiny little hallway. I wish we could move to a more spacious house but we can't. So I thought 'Okay, just make the best of what we've got' and I was trying to create a beautiful entrance/stairs/landing. I've seen tiny houses on Pinterest/Instagram that still look lovely if they're decorated absolutely beautifully and tastefully. That's what I was trying to achieve but have failed.
So
Leave it be, or go through the pain of changing it?

are there actually people who don't do this?

Just to say that the lighting will impact F&B paint too.

I don't get the weirdness about F&B paints. Personally I found F&B a nightmare to work with when I did a small room and my decorator mutinied after doing one room with it and said never again. Trade Dulux or valspar is much more consistent texture and doesn't streak in the same way for dark colours at least. I would NEVER use it for a hallway unless a professional was doing the work.

This might not answer your question, but if you add the tiniest (and start at very very tiny!) touch of black to a pale paint, it will stop looking like a cheap pastel and more like a subtle F&B shade. You can use a tube of artist's acrylic paint, so it only costs a few quid. Stir it really well for ages! If you've got loads of the Dulux left, it might be worth a try.

Of course there are!

Yeah you can’t rely on the online photos OP - even your screen settings will change the tone. We wanted the same as you for our house redecoration recently, and also used Dulux. We ended up going with Nutmeg White which gave a lovely, subtle pink.

I've never bothered with that much. Just a few patches painted next to each other and then picked one. I only like quite strong colours though so maybe they aren't as affected by light changes. Don't know.

Our hall and landing was one of those pale off whites for a while when I wanted to just get it painted fresh. I think it was Nutmeg White. It depressed me every time I looked at it. Now it's a lovely pink.

I feel your pain.

a couple of years ago I decided I wanted our hallway and landings this very pale sage green colour. I hired a painter/decorator, chose the colour from a small test pot, spent almost £1k on paint and left him to it.

I came home to the entire entryway and all the way up 3 floors of my house a bright green neon colour. It was fucking awful. I have sky lights that bounced the colour off the walls onto anyone standing there making them look like an alien.

There was no way I could live with it. The painter said it will look better after the second coat. My DH was trying to convince me it would be fine. But no way. I just had to suck up the cost of paying for more labour and another fortune on paint in a different colour.

Change the colour and do it now otherwise it will be one of those things that bugs you and upsets you for years.

You can do a coat morning and another late afternoon, if it’s a small space.

It’s always more intense in big patches though. DH didn’t think the pale primrose I chose was worth doing and wanted a stronger yellow. He agreed by the time we were done that pale was plenty!

If you find yourself in the same situation again, stop early and add white to it. Then go again!

And definitely paint A4 papers and put them up in several places. Look at them at different times of day.

In that case take it back to Brewers with the tester and tell them they made it wrong. Maddening, of course.

I've never had much l much luck with mixed paint - I tried to get a couple of Farrow and Ball colours copied and they were only very vague approximations of the real thing.

Hi OP - here is Tailor Tack as the middle sample in a North East bedroom on a bright yet grey day. The current white walls are basic universal white, for comparison.

You can’t get round paying for F&B, what you are paying for is natural pigment (which is expensive). When you buy cheap paint, you are buying cheap synthetic pigments, which are often shiny rather than matte. I’d see it as an expensive base coat and put two coats of F&B tailor tack over the top.

And stairs and landing. She says in her OP. Stairs can be tricky because you have to get to the top of the walls. It takes DH and I days to do ours. Mind you that includes doing the ceiling and glossing the woodwork.

Just repaint it OP! If your hallway is lacking natural light then I think you need to look for a colour with undertones to counteract that - you need to work with the light you’ve got even if it means not having your ideal colour. Hallways are really difficult as there are lots of walls really close together and no furniture to break it up so the colour just bounces off wall to wall and makes it more intense. If it makes you feel any better I had a decorator in to pant my hallway yellow - he did one coat of the upstairs landing and I got him to change it- it was awful even after months of trying out testers in diff light on really big sample patches!

No help here because I love it. When you have put pictures up and dressed it you will probably not notice it after a while

Colour patches should be done on white. You need to paint a patch white and then your tester. Otherwise the original colour of the wall interferes with your perception of the colour. Apologies if you've already done that.
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But by that logic surely you then have to do a coat of white paint over the entire wall before you start applying the colour.

We usually find we need two coats of colour whatever is underneath

Also you should only need 5 litres, since the colour you’ve based out in is nearish, obviously no where near enough.

Oh that's so interesting, you are clever....the pretty-pink link you've posted is literally what's on my walls!
But the tin says blossom pink and the guy who did it stuck 'blossom pink' label on tin.
Do you think he could have still made a mistake?

That's so lovely of you, thank you!😊
I do really like TT.....

Go back to the shop - if you have the tester or can buy one off the shelf it's going to look completely different to your leftover paint if he mixed it wrong.

It literally says in the OP that she did a tester patch

I think tailor tack looks more peachy than red-pink and you've got a red based pink. I would definitely check with the shop but I would also go with something more peachy if you like tailor tack.

Well this was the colour I wanted. Tailor Tack.

So based on me wanting a pale white pink, You wanted Tailor Tack, which isn't a pale white pink

DH bought Blossom White Dulux but it doesn't look like Tailor Tack, and the walls don't look like Blossom White Dulux.

If you don't have an eye for colours just paint the walls white.

It will be more intense in a small space.

Agree. It’s a white with touch of pink.